Individual Poetry Readings

In order to understand poetry, you must immerse yourself in poetry.

• "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
• "Superman's Laundry" by Michael Beadle
• "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare
• "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings
• "Her Anxiety" by William Butler Yeats
• "Remember" by Christina Rossetti
• "The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls" by Longfellow
• "We Alone" by Alice Walker
• "Today" by Billy Collins
• "A Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Baby's Way" by Rabindranath Tagore
• "If" by Ruyard Kipling
• "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
• "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "No Man Is an Island" by John Donne
• "The People Upstairs" by Ogden Nash
• "The Fish" by Marianne Moore
• "Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
• "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Thatched Hut" by Basho

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• "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
• "The Tiger" by Nael
• "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
• "XVII" by Emily Dickinson
• "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy
• "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
• "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
• "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God" by John Donne
• "The Haunted Oak" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "Dirty Face" by Shel Silverstein
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
• "Deer" by Bill Griffin
• "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy
• "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
• "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón
• "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
• "The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus" by Ogden Nash
• "An August Night" by Seamus Heaney
• “Chinese Female Kung-Fu Superheroes” by Teresa Mei Chuc

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• "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
• "Spinster" by Sylvia Plath
• "The Lamb" by William Blake
• "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou (2003 Poetry March Madness winner)
• "A Century Later" by Imtiaz Dharker
• "World without Women" by Mark Evanier
• "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams
• "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda
• "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley
• "Footnotes" by Kristina Mahr
• "Sonnet 138" by William Shakespeare
• "I Sit by the Fire and Think" by J.R.R. Tolkien
• "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh
• "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
• "Text" by Carol Ann Duffey
• "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
• "A Red, Red, Rose" by Robert Burn
• “Housekeeping” by Natasha Tretheway
• "A Word to Husbands" by Ogden Nash

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4th Quarter

• "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost
• "Anecdote of the Jar" by Wallace Stevens
• "The Tyger" by William Blake
• "Risk" by Anais Nin
• "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman
• "Pretty Ugly" by unknown author
• "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
• "Poetry" by Marianne Moore
• “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley
• “I Have a Rendezvous With Death” by Alan Seeger
• "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phyllis Wheatley
• "The Flustards" by Dr. Seuss
• "Psalm 23" by David
• "To Althea from Prison" by Richard Lovelace
• “rumors” by Jaki Shelton Green
• "The Love Song of Shu-Sin" by unknown author
• “One Day I Wrote her Name” by Edmund Spenser
• “Out Upon It” by Sir John Suckling
• "Hail to Thee" the ERA Alma Mater
  

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